Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

I got strange problem with smscon. Everytime I try to start smscon-editor, it prompts me for password - ho ever, nor root password or user one (I've password set for user) is accepted.

In fact, I've installed smscon "centuries" ago, as one of first program after acquiring N900, so it's quite likely, that I missed something on that point (i.e. created password upon installation, that I don't remember now).

I've tried apt-get purge + manual deletion of "remnant" files, to no avail. Is there any way for me to "unlock" it? I would like to - finally - be able to set tuned and correct parameters... Better safe than sorry.

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

try to uninstall first and then delete as root the
/opt/smscon-editor folder

when you re-install you will need to setup all and the pass will be the default

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Thanks for replying, but...

So, of course, I've already tried it - with /opt/smscon/ , /opt/smscon-editor/ , and something in /home/user/ related to sms too.

So, I'm still waiting for some suggestion, cause every attempt failed. To the level, that my N900 hanged during [i]n[/n] installation of smscon, to the point that I needed to hold power button, to disable it hard way, after 30 minutes or so. Of course, hanging during installing was critical for optfs, and even fsck wasn't able to restore it (journal was trashed), so I ended up restoring backup (via backupmenu) - my second situation, when I was "forced" to recover backup, up to date ;)

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

I Haven't seen this ever happening and i develop in my device!
Cannot also think how it could get trigger such a behaviour unless you have some corrupted system libraries.

My proposal is to reinstall, then UNinstal, reboot and delete the smscon-editor folder.

Good luck, let me know if you need more help.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

thanks Saturn, will try. BTW, normally, "which" password should be accepted, to start up smscon? root one, user one, or some "internal" password of smscon? I'm asking, cause I would like to know correct behavior (i.e. what I'm trying to achieve) while trying to fix my problematic one ;)

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

since when did you become lazy and cant read the wiki? :)

it is 12345

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Yea, figured it out already - was in way to write about it here, but You were faster. Shame on me, ash on head etc. Really :o

I've managed to get it working - thanks for Your suggestion. I also noticed, that using *any* method of deinstallation (regular, purge, whatever) apt-get report about *not* being able to delete things in /opt/, due to "folder not empty". Still, I haven't put any files on it manually - everything there was created during installation, or by smscon/smscon-editor. As result, everything is left instact there (files created during installation also) This error occurs, when trying to "purge" - which, essentially, makes automatically purging it impossible. Need to delete everything manually.

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I was able to use it, and daemon/startup on boot/configuring via smscon-editor works. Testing via "test" tab also. Ho ever, I noticed few glitches:

1. Prefix (commands tab) - this option seems to be non-working at all. Saving setting (with "Prefix" set) doesn't write at all to smscon config. After closing and re-opening smscon-editor, prefix field is also empty.

2. Despite testing/initializing etc being working great, I can't use sms commands, that I've set. No matter what I'm doing, SMS is received normally, and no defined action is taken by device. I use space inside my commands (checked in wiki that it's ok), and filtered out possible typos. Tried both with prefix (that seems to be non-working anyway), and without. Overall, "Wasted" many sms'es trying to test any possible scenario (including normal sms'es and flash sms'es) - to no avail.

The only thing I can think of, is that I'm using smsend - but, it should not matter, as SMS'es are received normally, saved in conversation etc.

Also, for testing purposes, number "authorized" to send sms commands, is same numer, that is currently inside my N900 - i.e. I'm sending sms'es to myself (for testing purposes). Common sense tells me that it should not matter, but, should I test it from other phone?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

/Estel

// Edit

Another bug found - there is no setting (in smscon-editor) to disable reverse ssh possibility, but if user delete values from writeable fields (host, port etc), it's possible to save settings. Then, on next start of smscon-editor, a "Critical failure in user config" is reported, and smscon-editor refuses to start. I've fixed it, by manually editing smscon config, and adding random value to reverse ssh fields.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Something else is also not all-right. Since configuration and testing, my phone is - on it's own - connecting to cellular data (3,5G or 2G, depending on what is available). It's doing it *only*, when I'm not connected to wifi.

I'm absolutely sure, that option "remote host" (this one responsible for checking state of file on remote host, and interpreting it as command) is turned "off" - both in smscon editor, and in smscon config file.

Of course, after testing I've used "tests done", I've also tried disabling and enabling again smscon_daemon - to no avail. Even restoring (both reset and initialize) + setting my own commands again, doesn't fix this issue.

As I don't have "unlimited" data plan, I'm "forced" to uninstall smscon, due to it being eating bandwidth from my data plan - not to mention battery life - when random connection occur.

Any hints greatly appreciated.

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Goto internet settings and choose your preference.
After being activated once this has been set to GPRS. Most probably you had it to WLAN.


BTW, a new much improved version is on its way..

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Oh f***, could checked that myself. Still, I haven't idea that it could overwrite it - there was no sign of such behavior, nor any mentioning about it in wiki (or I missed something again?), so I've been messing only with smscon config purging (manually)

It's great to hear, that improved version is coming, thanks, Saturn. I hope my bug reports were of any help :)

I don't know if it is relevant now, but, while "fighting" with auto-connection - after using "Initialize" option, notification about clearing config etc. appear, stating that program will now exit. Ho ever, after closing notif., it doesn't - it just hang up totally, need to kill it from Maemo. Happen every time this option is used, 100% reproduceable.

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Hi I just downloaded smscon but can't seem to get access to it.

smscon -start returns ERROR: smscon must be run as "root"

am I missing something?

thanks

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

use SMSCON Editor to start it (and probably configure it too)

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

I read every post on this tread. I respect your work. I'm pretty sure the idea of having SMScon run 1-6 different scripts has not been discussed. If users could launch 1-6 different scripts using SMScon a lot of request people have had (like having the device make loud sounds) could met halfway.

If changing what SMScon does from sms commands like "reboot" (to run Script2 etc.) is somehow possible otherwise please please be so kind to point me to the right direction if you can.

I'm working on turning n900 into a public videojukebox using mplayer and SMScon and alarmed (to turn the "jukebox service" off). It is for city dwellers to enjoy the city better.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Sorry for the long silence from both digitalvoid and me..

News are we have added a third member in the team.

Lutz, is a very enthusiastic and patient guy. :)
He has gone through all of our code, cleaned it and dissected in more manageable parts and on top added several improvements.

Soon we'll release the outcome in the open as version 0.9.x (currently under internal testing).
Few weeks later we'll publish also some new features in the 1.0.x currently under development.

cheers

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Hi all, It's been a while since I was here... :)

I haven't tested the new upcoming code from Lutz/Saturn myself yet, but I looks very promising. Lutz will, I think, revive SMSCON with more and better options and inner workings.

My interests are at this moment to other Linux based projects (none-Maemo related) so I haven't done nothing with the development of SMSCON the last months, but Saturn & Lutz luckily have!

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

will be port to Harmattan ?

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

We don't have a timescale and haven't started working on it but yes the intention is there. Most of the parts need basically to be rewritten so no promise yet.

At the moment.. i'm struggling to follow Lutz. :D

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Hi,
I made the 'fatal' mistake to change my SIM card while having SMSCON installed. After several unsuccessful attempts to bring things back to normal through the SMSCON editor, I still received those sms's regarding the SIM and the GPS location of the phone on every single reboot.

Finally I gave up and removed both SMSCON, the editor, plus the opt/... and etc/inti.d paths. It was futile. My N900 still thinks I am the thief and keeps sending to itself sms's.

Please let me know how to get rid of the SMSCON ghost!:eek:

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

change the settings in smscon,you will find a way . thats easy :rolleyes:

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

No, it's not. He said already, that he tried changing settings in SMSCON-Editor. Maybe he is doing it wrong - I can't tell for sure, cause not enough details of what he did was presented - but, at least, it's not matter of not trying before asking.

So, please, respond with at least same amount of respect, and read what he posted, before writing ->your 6th useless response, for a total of your 6 posts.<-

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Thanks for backing me up Estel. I have run out of ideas on where to look for those hidden scripts that initiate the 'change of sim' and 'gps location' commands after every reboot.
There is no point in trying to reinstall smscon and editor and deactivate them. It did not work.
So, as far as I can tell, I should have an smscon-free N900, but I don't.
I could use some help. Anyone? Saturn?

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Major release for the SMSCON project.

With the amazing contribution from Lutz (yablacky) we have released version 0.9.3-1 of both SMSCON and SMSCON Editor packages in extras-devel (see links for the long changelogs below).

In addition, all the code is now public in SVN at the garage site for your scrutiny and proposal/contributions for further improvement.

Warning: Choose your settings accordingly to the contract you have for your telephony functions to avoid unnecessary costs from SMS.

Changelog for SMSCON
Changelog for SMSCON Editor

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Not sure if older versions had the same, but the tabs in the main menu partially missing in portrait mode?
Not a really big deal, I just have to switch back to landscape to see them...

Edit:just noticed you can scoll between the tabs by pressing on the edge of the line of tabs, so forget about my remark.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Thanks, I've missed that in the last update.
Just uploaded a version that behaves better in both orientations.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Hi,

Please follow the steps.
1. install the latest SMSCON and SMSCON Editor with the application manager
2. (dont close the application manager and) save the log > post it here.
3. close the application manager
4. (open the application manager and) unistall both packages and save the log > post it again here.

All should be fixed now. We have added better scripts to (un)install both applications.

Cheers

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

OK, I've installed new version and configured it. Upon using "test" page (SMS) I got "Nokia N900 test message" correctly, but just after receiving it, SMSCON started to spam masternumber with SMS messages with content:
I had to killall smscon_daemon to stop sending SMS'es ;)

If I can provide more info that will help debugging this issue, just point me what to do.

/Estel

// Edit
Same message also appeared on e-mail (I've used "both" sms and email as receiver), although only once (no spam as with SMS).

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Could you tell me what has changed in the last update? I can't see a visible difference, but perhaps because the change is minor.

I'm also having a little issue with SMScon. I reinstalled SMScon and SMScon-Editor, but it made no difference.
When I test sending an email, it responses with "Test initiation failed.". Nevertheless, the mail is send succesfully. A new process is started and stays active. There is also a daemon process from boottime, but it also has a faulty state concluding from the logging:
These are the processes afterwards:
A new email test will lead to a new daemon (email2)

Any suggestions for further debugging?

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

You can send me the log file at:
I propose after to switch it from the settings to email only to avoid more SMSs until this is solved.

EDIT: could you please also give the output of

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

OK, I'll upload log in few minutes. Meanwhile, another thing (although, I'm not sure if it is a bug, or a feature ;) ) - selecting "send reply messages on" 'battery status' and ''slide open'', result in (after reboot) message containing battery status /indicating that slide was open even though SIM *wasn't* replaced by one with different IMSI. Which, I think, kill purpose of this command.

Requested log:
Of course number wasn't xxxxxxxxxxx, i just replaced it.

Result of dpkg -l | grep gobject:
// edit
Another minor mistake (?) in SMSCON editor - On tab "general", under "Mobile number of contact" (aka masternumber) is:
AFAIU, it's not true - masternumber doesn't change, SMS is just sent twice.

Also, another observation - after testing sms message, I got *two* messages with "test message", and also *two* messages with fatal error - hence the feeling of being spammed. In fact, it's only 4 messages instead of 1 (no irony, just trying to be specific).

+feature upgrade request:
Allowing to start (remotely) reverse ssh is great option, but, AFAIK, now it works only with ssh connection with password authentication. could You, please, implement authorisation via public key - preferably, located @ configurable (from SMSCON editor) path?

The idea is, to create special private/public key part, only for using it with SMSCON. normally, sane usage of public key authentication on mobile device require locking it with password - so, no way to use it remotely, as there is no one on the device to write password - but, special pubkey without password just for SMSCON (thus, creating connection with limited access), would be nice to have.

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Have you changed the font (or use a theme with larger font)?
If you use the standard font then you will not need to scroll horizontally at any window any more. Only vertically.

Can you reboot your device and test again?

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Okay, I thought it might have something to do with the font (size). To see the port number in the Email section, I still have to scroll in portrait mode. But perhaps it is related to my theme. Compliments for your layout btw, I can learn from that :)

I already tried a couple of times. Last time I disabled the start of smscon at boottime. When I try to start it from the init screen in SMSconEditor, the message is:
The logging says the same:
smscon_daemon processes keep running after every attempt.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

I also don't like this option and I never use it :)
The original idea is to get a message everytime the battery drops one bar.

I will discuss it with the others and try to convince them to change it to send a message only when below a threshold.

Unfortunately the log doesn't have much valuable info.
Could you try the same sequence as before but with the "Retry on failed reply message" to OFF (unchecked)?
I would like to see if the -fatal error- disappears that way.

right, will be corrected in the next version.

I was curious for the log to understand where the code to stop sending messages when it crashes failed. Apparently it hasn't failed and it stopped sending.

The thing is I cannot reproduce a failed send message to check the code. I have sent literally hundreds of SMS and all were sent correctly.

Will put it in the todos.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Sending message only below some threshold (most likely, configurable one) is good idea, but my main problem with both this and "keyboard slided" report message, is that it send messages *without* new SIM inserted event. I just need to activate it, reboot, and it starts. It would be more sane, to do so after new IMSI detected (new and unauthorized SIM card inserted) - this way, we know that someone is using/trying to use our device.

There is no much sense to have it activated with our own SIM, and when we don't have access to our N900, we can't (without some remote shell or script magic) activate it. So, it becomes quite useless.

The thing is, that it sends fatal error messages even *without* situation with failed SMS - for example, when I open testing page and click "test SMS", it sends SMS instantly (retry time is 15 minutes, so I'm sure it wasn't fail and retry). It just send SMS successfully, then send it another time (instantly, without 15 min interval), then it sends "fatal error" messages, also twice.

Anyway, here is log output as you requested (without "retry on failed reply message").
This time, It also have sent 4 messages (of course I've tried "test sms" only once), two "test message", and two:
This may be related to fact, that I've (before testing) disabled loading smscon on startup (until issues get fixed).

BTW - another minor issue in GUI - under "General" tab, "Reply Message Settings" - if one have it set to "none" (upon SMSCON-Editor start), and tries to change it, all dependent checkbox ("Each Command", "Battery Status", "Slider Open"), are still grayed out. One need to enable Reply Message (to SMS, email, or both), save settings, *close SMSCON-Editor* and enable it again, to gain access to mentioned checkboxes. This work the same way in reverse - if one disables reply messages, checkboxes aren't grayed out until SMSCON-Editor gets restarted.

/Estel

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Firstly if this has been already commented on and i have missed it then sorry for the double post.
I updated smscon and its editor today.
Since the update the smscon editor will not open.
I get
value of user setting of user setting "checkhost" does not match
then i get
Loading active settings failed
failed to activate recent edit settings
Activating initial settings failed
then i get the same message again, and then i get
Enforcedly loaded smscon settings
Please check them all.some seem to be invalid
and it closes.
I have read the thread and i have uninstalled both parts then re-installed them again, and it makes no difference.
This is a fantastic app and i hope it can be fixed.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Please post your log either copying the file from /opt/smscon/smscon.log or by doing as root smscon -log.
Note, remove the sensitive info: IMEI and phonenumbers.

Normally, after the error messages it should not close. Then by hitting update it will insert the missing fields. This can happen (i.e. the missing fields) when we add new features like now.

Of course, if you don't want to bother (in helping us find the reason) you can just unistall both packages and do as root
and reinstall.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

I had a similar error about the CHECKHOST not finded. But smsconGUI open well after charging a default conf.
After that I have manually edited the file "smscon_conf" as describe in the wiki and have to type the exact patern found in the wiki after this using smsconGUI work perfectly

note : on a first time I tried with 'www.bla.com' but style have the error until I wrote 'www.bla.com/filetocheck'.
Thanks for this very nice app. And thanks for the wiki, the work around, and the error message easily understandable for a standard user.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

This is very strange as it said the daemon was not running. therefore it couldn't sent you anything.

After you uninstall do the same I said earlier as root:

This will remove all.

Kaly tyxi..

EDIT: added some more things to clean.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

To run smscon as root use the "sudo" prefix:

I will add this information to the SMSCON wiki. I fixed the code so that sudo prefix is no longer required explicitly (comes in 0.9.4).

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Regularly uninstalling SMSCON prior to 0.9.3 does not remove all of its parts. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is one issue we fixed.

To get rid of SMSCON try to execute following commands as root in this order (ignore errors in case files to be removed do not exist):
I you are not root or don't know how to become root you might consider to install smscon 0.9.3 or higher (sounds crazy, I know) and then regularly un-install it via application manager. This would then under the hood execute above commands as root and kills the ghost without reboot.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
 

Thanks for the report. I can reproduce it and are going to fix it.

UPDATE: will be fixed in 0.9.4. Until then, disable message resending.